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Lockerbie: the break-in kept secret for 12 years
• MOST who have studied the ‘evidence’ led against Abdelbaset al-Megrahi over Lockerbie would agree with Charles Norrie that Megrahi was not involved in causing the disaster (Megrahi deserves freedom, says victim’s brother, August 14).
The depths of secrecy surrounding Lockerbie are exemplified by the Heathrow break-in in the early morning of the disaster day, close to where the baggage was later assembled. It was investigated by the Metropolitan Police immediately, yet for 12 years it was concealed until after the verdict against Megrahi had been reached. Then the security guard who found the break-in appeared, demanding to know why that evidence had not been used. Both the Thatcher government of the day and the prosecutors (Scotland’s Crown Office) have effectively denied to me that they knew about it. Had it been known, the Lockerbie trial, with its fragile assertions about Megrahi breaking through security in Malta, would have collapsed, in the face of the documented and well-supported evidence from Heathrow.
Whether Mr Norrie’s allegations against the CIA are accurate I do not claim to know. Certainly, they are not ruled out by material known to me: there are major anomalies about what is supposed to have happened on board Pan Am 103.
Does it not strike you as remarkable that Mr Norrie, who lost his brother to a proven Libyan aircraft bombing plot, has studied the evidence and come to the same conclusion as us, namely that Megrahi was not guilty over Lockerbie?
DR JIM SWIRE
Via email
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